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Show • At 6:15 p.m., what Zanetti describes as a "small grass fire" was reported off Meadows Drive across the street from the Park Meadows Country Club clubhouse. It burned a patch of grass approximately 15 feet by 15 feet in area, Zanetti said. The Police Department indicated in its logs the fire was near the 18th hole of the country club's golf course. District, include: Zanetti said an errant cigarette • At 12:56 a.m., the Fire or a firework could have started District was called to Richardson the fire, but investigators did not Flat Road along the S.R. 248 entryway after a mattress was find evidence of either. Sunday reported to be ablaze. Bob was the day after Pioneer Day, a Zanetti, the Fire District's assis- holiday that many people celetant chief, said the blaze remained brate with fireworks. The Police under investigation and it appears Department received a few complaints about fireworks in the days to have been started by a person. surrounding Pioneer Day as well Zanetti said firefighters from as the holiday itself. nearby Wasatch County put out "'There was no ignition source the mattress fire. Park City Police around there," Zanetti said. Department dispatchers received A groundkeeper at the country a report about the fire, with the club used a fire extinguisher to put person making the call indicating out the grass fire, Zanetti said. it was a brush fire. Zanetti, In another case, handled initialthough, said no acreage was burned. The mattress and trash at ly by the Police Department, the location were consumed, unspecified items were reported to be smoldering on steps on the though. 300 block of Main Street. The Fire • At 4:20 p.m., firefighters District was called as well, but responded to a call on the 2100 police logs did not provide details. block of Sunrise Circle, a small Zanetti said the statewide fire street in Prospector, where a deck outside a house was ablaze. danger is high, with underbrush Zanetti said it appears that an and other vegetation starting to errant cigarette started the fire. dry out. The dry vegetation could Nobody was home at the time, he provide the fuel needed for a fire said, and neighbors responded to spread. He expects the danger to remain high through quickly. September. The neighbors and Park City '"Everybody needs to be carepolice officers extinguished the ful, and things are going to continvisible flames before firefighters ue to dry out," Zanetti said. arrived, Zanetti said. There have long been concerns "We were very fortunate we that an out-of-control brush fire had some help from some citicould be devastating inside Park zens," Zanetti said, adding, "That could have run right into the City or in the Snyderville Basin. Numerous houses are built at the house." He said the neighbors saw edge of forested land. In some neighborhoods, such as Old Town, smoke rising from the deck. meanwhile, houses are built within "They saw a big plume of a few feet of each other and close smoke. The deck was just getting to wooded hillsides. going," Zanetti said. • Continued from A-1 The Park Record. Three blazes extinguished Serving Summit Councy since 1880 HOME DELIVERY NOW AVAILABLE The Park Record, Park City's No. 1 source for local news, opinions and advertising, is now available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lalce, Davis and Utah counties. 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When something is built for them, their needs may change or it may break rendering it useless. Nowak said dZi meets with villagers to determine what would improve their health or economy. The villagers come up with their own projects and dZi sor for Monday's presentation fea- helps bring them to fruition. The turing photography and short improvements are their own - built videos of villagers explaining their by them and maintained by them. projects to improve life in their Most villagers are subsistent area. farmers, he said. The long-term Nowak will not be asking for goal is to help them grow herbs, donations at the free event. He spices or medicinal plants for said that experience has proven if export. you twist an arm for a handout it The current target area of dZi is comes once. If you inspire people inhabited by 18,000, he said. with your work and convert them "These people are resourceful to the cause, they support you for a and fun. They just don't have lifetime. opportunity to raise themselves "We feel our work is so com- up," he said. "Nobody goes there; pelling we think it will resonate it's really a forgotten corner of with people," he said. "We get the Nepal." information out there and let peoMarmot will host a raffle for a ple connect with it." $500 shopping spree at their store Many groups build things for on Main to attendees. • Continued from A-1 ' The Park Record online is available at www.parkrecord.com and contains all of the news and feature stories in the latest edition plus breaking news updates. The Record's Web site also hosts interactive entertainment, restaurant and lodging listings, multimedia features and community blog forums. t Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 28-30, 2010 The Park Record A-2 • Continued from A-1 County fair starts soon facility like that to be multi-faceted so it gets used on a regular basis, not just a piece of property that is used one week a year for the Summit County fair," Schmidt said. Coalville resident Karen Brostrom said she hopes the county fair does not leave the North Summit area. "As a Coalville resident, it would give us one less thing to draw people to town," Brostrom said. The 2010 Summit County Fair is scheduled in Coalville from Aug. 7 through Aug. 14. Man sentenced to jail time Park City lawyer swindled client out of more than $346K By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff A Park City attorney who used money he stole to help start a local law firm for his sons was sentenced Monday to serve a year in the Summit County jail. A deputy led Snyderville Basin resident Gary William Nielsen, 66, from the courtroom to the jail to begin serving his sentence immediately. Nielsen pleaded guilty in March to second-degree felony theft for stealing more than $346,200 from one of his clients. The victim, Creekside Funding LLC, lost $346,248 after about $560,000 was placed by the firm into a trust account held by Nielsen at Mountain West Bank on Park Avenue, according to Summit County Attorney David Brickey. Nielsen has admitted he took the money, Brickey added. South Summit resident Syau-fu Ma said she was one of the people Nielsen victimized. Ma asked 3rd District Court Judge Robert Hilder to order Nielsen to serve time in prison. "Gary Nielsen is not only old enough to know better, he is an attorney," Ma said at Monday's sentencing hearing. "Gary Nielsen did not extort funds because of extenuating circumstances. His wife was not dying of cancer. He had not lost his home to a fire. He stole the funds to feed his extravagant lifestyle of expensive African safaris, first-class cruises to the Antarctic, riding arenas in his backyard and original artwork for his new law office." Nielsen, who wore a button-down forest green shirt and grayish trousers, did not testify on Monday. He has admitted he used the money he stole for his own benefit, according to Brickey. Nielsen was hired by Creekside Funding to getridof liens placed by creditors on property acquired by Creekside. Creekside shareholder Richard R. Arnold Jr. said he did not suspect Nielsen would steal from the firm. "I was completely comfortable having the escrow funds in Gary Nielsen's trust account," Arnold told the judge. "We had no concerns about him holding that money ... It seemed like the safest place on Earth to me." But Nielsen has shown no remorse since stealing the money, Arnold said. "[Nielsen] has repeatedly asked us to drop the criminal charges," Arnold said. "Gary Nielsen has not taken responsibility for his actions." He said Nielsen belongs behind bars. "This was money held in an attorney trust account. He abused that trust account. He abused his role as fiduciary," Arnold said. "Gary Nielsen made a choice, and that choice was to take money that did not belong to him." An 'elderly gentleman' Nielsen's attorney asked that her client be spared jail time. 'The victims asked for quite severe punishment for an elderly gentleman," attorney Gail Laser said. "Sometimes people get in desperate straits and they make bad decisions." Park City businessman Richard Bizarro said he has known Nielsen for 20 years. "He has handled millions of dollars for me in a perfect manner," Bizarro told the judge. "I consider him to be trustworthy." Bizarro said Nielsen does not deserve to go to jail. Meanwhile, Laser stressed that Nielsen has no other criminal record. "This is a single act of very bad judgment for which he is regretful and wants to make full restitution," Laser said in a telephone interview. But Nielsen has not attempted to pay restitution, his victims claimed. Nielsen's crime was a "very substantial breach of trust," the judge said. "This is a case where it would be easy to dole out a prison sentence," Hilder said. Hilder said he has "doubts about the level of [Nielsen's] remorse." Along with the jail sentence, Hilder also ordered Nielsen to pay restitution and placed him on probation for six years. to investigate the counterfeiting case. deBotelho said the case involves someone tampering with the amount on the check, changing thefigureto approximately ten times the amount that the check writer, a business, intended. The bank did not become aware of the case until months after the check was cashed at Key Bank, deBotelho said. The detective said he is not aware Record published the image, the of the bank having an image of the detective said. person who cashed the check. Meanwhile, a friend of the Key Bank officials in Park City Snyderville Basin man in the image called the person, who was not in referred questions to a Denver-based Jack Sparks, the Park City at the time the image was spokesman. spokesman, said Key Bank is conpublished, deBotelho said. The man ducting an internal investigation to in the image looked at it on his smartdetermine how the image of the phone and then contacted the police. wrong man was provided to the "He was just confused about what police. The case is the first of its kind happened," deBotelho said, adding at Key Bank in the 4 1/2 years Sparks that the man was "kind of shocked, to has been with the bank, he said. say the least, his picture was there." "We deeply regret this error," deBotelho said it is not clear whether the man in the image was Sparks said, apologizing to the man. He said a high-ranking Key Bank inside the bank at the same time the official based in Utah offered a percounterfeiting suspect was there. The sonal apology. Sparks declined to disdetective wants to interview the man in the image nonetheless to learn cuss details about the internal investiwhether he saw the person who gation. He also declined to answer questions about the ongoing probe cashed the counterfeit check. 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